Churn.



V. s. KLICK.V CHURN. APPLICATION PIIED 00T.17, 1910.

Witwen@ MWMOL Marko/megs Patented June, 19411.

UNrrED STAWEN T OFFICE- V];G' ITOIR S. KLICK, 0F COLUMBUS, OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom 'it may concern;

Be it known that I, VICTOR S. KLICK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Churns, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the kind of churn in which moving bearingswithin the churn body or above the vessel are dispensed wi-th, and inwhich the momentum of the body and devices it carries in conjunctionwith stationary parts within the body facilitate the agitation of thecream and the production of butter.

The invention is embodied in the example of it set forth in thefollowing specification and in the accompanying drawings in which-Figure 1 is a view mainly in side elevation with a few parts in section.Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the churn body or receptacle showing infull the parts therein. Fig. 8 is a horizontal section on the lines Fig.2. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the upper end of Fig. 1.

In the views 5 designates a suitable stand or pedestal from the topmember of which is erected a bracket 6 containing a bearing 7 for thespindle 8 of the vessel support 9. The vessel is designated 10 kwhichmerely rests on the support, the weight of the vessel and its contentsbeing sufficient to retain it xed to the support during the operation.The spindle 8 is stepped at its lower end in a bearing 11 on the top ofthe stand. On the spindle 8 is secured with a set screw a bevel pinion12 engaged by a master bevel gear wheel 13 having a -driving shaft 14journaled in a standard 15 erected from the top member of the pedestal.The shaft 14 can be operated by a handled crank 16 or other device forapplying power to it to rotate the vessel support 9. Extending upwardfrom a branch of the bracket 6 is a post 17 having a horizontal armportion 18 that reaches through a point at or near t-he vertical line ofthe axis of the vessel.

19, 19, designate perforated agitator blades having slotted horizontallyextending Shanks.

20 designates a stem having a seat 21 for the slotted Shanks of theagitator blades, said blades being secured. to the said seat by asuitable bolt 22 passed through the Slots and the seat. The slottedShanks of Patented June 6, 1911.

the blades 19'permit an adjustment of those members to ft withinvesselsof different diameters. The stem 2O has an angular portion 23 tot in a correspondingly shaped seat 24 in the horizontal arm 18, and whenso seated the stem is fixed from rotation therein by latch 25 pivoted at26 on the arm 18. A stop26a on the stem 20 engaging the i arm 18suspends the stem in proper position vertically. The blades 19, 19, donot reach to the bottom of the vessel, ybut loosely placed on saidbottom below said blades is a structure consisting of four flatvertically standing blades typified at 27 all meeting at a central hub.From the central hub rises ay rod 27 a of suicient length to projectabove the ordinary level of the cream or churning so that the device canbe inserted or removed without contact of the fingers of the operatorwith the cream. The

bades 27 are deeply scalloped at their lower` e ges.

28 isa vent at the bottom of the vessel to drain off the butter milkafter the butter has been made. This vent can be closed with a stopper29 of cork, wood or other suitable material. The vent structure 28projects into the vessel and it there also serves as a stop to engagethe winged structure 27 to carry itaround when the vessel is rotated.The winged structure will, of'

course, be formed in different sizes suited to vessels of differentdiameter.

The vessel support is made with annularly arranged stops 30, 31, and32within which vessels of three dierent sizes can be placed and by whichthey are properly centered on' the rotatable support.

33 designates a cover for the vessel which is conveniently made in twosemi-circular halves and each half provided on its straight edge withangular joint members and a semicircular recess to form a circular holewhen the halves are matched together to close the vessel about the stem20. The

halves of the cover are provided with knobs tion would slip around itandif it were not for the devices within the vessel the cream would partakeof little of the motion of the vessel. But the winged structure 27 inthe bot-tom of the vessel is impelled by and does partake of thatmotion, and because the wings of said structure are presented flatwiseto the inert mass of the fluid the latter is by these wings given themotion of the vessel. But the agitator blades 19, 19, are stationaryhence'the fluid is swirled past the said blades and broken into numerousindependent streams by the perforations thereof. Centrifugal action onthe fluent mass also causes it to pile up at the sides of the vesselwhere the agitator blades are located. The effect of the blades is, ofcourse, to destroy the effect of centrifugal action and break down theaccumulation at the side and agitation is the effect of these twoopposing conditions. The openings at the lower edges of the wings 27permit the agitated fluid to i freely pass under the blades thusproducing altogether the complex motions which constitute the thoroughagitation resulting in the rapid formation of butter. After the churningoperation is completed the operating movable parts Within the vessel arereadily and entirely removed for cleaning and leaving the vessel free tobe taken from the support.

An important advantage of this construction is that the momentum of thevessel and its contents renders less laborious the obtaining of thechurning effect of the contents. Another advantage is that the contentsof the vessel are not likely to be contaminated or spoiled by oil anddirt from operating bearings requiring oil such bearings being locatedentirely below thel vessel. For this and other reasons apparent from theconstruction as described the churn is of a highly sanitary andconveniently operated character.

What I claim is: i

l. In a churn, the combination with a body or vessel and means forrotating the same, a stationary agitator blade projecting verticallyinto the vessel and a winged or bladed structure resting removably onthe bottom of the vessel, the wings or blades of the last namedstructure being scalloped 4at its lower edges, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a churn, the combination with a body or vessel and means forrotating the same, a stationary agitator blade projecting verticallyinto the vessel, a winged or bladed structure provided with openingsresting removably on the bottom of the vessel, and a vent deviceprojecting into the vessel to engage said winged structure to cause thesame to be carried with the vessel when rotated, substantially asdescribed.

VICTOR S. KLICK.

Witnesses BENJAMIN FINCKEL, MAYME FOARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

